Mermaid Feeding Rules

"Diamond candy?" Anthony looked up at Boyce, "I see."

He put the things that Boyce asked them to bring on the table last time: "What do you want, is there anything missing?"

Boyce counted the list and put it away after making sure everything was in order. When he looked up, he saw Laurie standing impatiently at the door and looking at them. He put one hand in his pocket and saw Boyce Looking at himself, his eyes flickered, and he said loudly, "What are you looking at?"

"Why don't you leave?" Seeing that Boyce was still there, he couldn't help but speak again.

Laurie is one of Olier's subordinates, and it's not surprising that he didn't have a good look at him, but Boyce always felt that he seemed to be deliberately driving him away, and a clue flashed through his mind, but Didn't have time to catch it.

Laurie stared at Boyce, holding the contents in his pocket with his right hand, until he left, Laurie's tense body relaxed, and he sat down eagerly at the table in front of Anthony.

The moment Boyce closed the door, he heard Laurie's urgent tone: "I need you to send something out..."

……

The logistics know the outside news better than the research institute. When Boyce left, he heard several logistics personnel talking about the news from the investors.

"Some time ago, the old head of the Eureka family abdicated, and the new head took over..."

"I heard that the old Patriarch originally preferred the younger son and thought the elder son was not smart enough, but in the end the elder son succeeded in taking the position."

"It is said that the eldest son invited foreign aid. Knowing that outsiders were involved, the old Patriarch was directly sent to the hospital. The current Patriarch is looking for medicine..."

"The deputy director who parachuted over after a while is said to be the son of the current head of the family."

Listening to their chat, Boyce suddenly thought of Laurie in the logistics department. Could it be the potion researched based on the z-Ⅲ formula that he wanted someone to deliver?

……

"Who did you meet in the logistics department, why this expression?"

"I met Laurie." Boyce didn't say much about his guess, remembering that he just had a clue about the medicine that relieved the effect of z-III, and frowned with a headache for a while.

Sure enough, Boyce was called to the office by Cyril in the afternoon to inquire about the progress, which made Boyce more certain about his guess.

A lot of fresh fish were caught today. Boyce remembers that one of the palm-sized fish Garcia likes very much, but the food provided by the research institute to mermaids is mostly large pieces of fish, and only occasionally there are small fish. fish appear.

Thinking of the mermaid Garcia, Boyce also had some headaches.

Originally thought that after talking to him, Garcia would give up thinking of herself as a partner, but Boyce underestimated the instinct of the mermaid, although the mermaid seemed to agree with Boyce's saying that two people must like each other to be able to get married. It is said to be a mate, but his behavior is faintly revealing the posture of a male courtship.

Ever since he knew the meaning of the word "sofia" in the mermaid, Boyce always felt that it was not a coincidence that Garcia would appear near the ship of the institute some time after he entered the institute. Let yourself be caught in the research institute.

This kind of behavior that sounds crazy, meaningless and incomprehensible to humans, does not seem to be too surprising to appear on mermaids.

This speculation made Boyce feel a sense of responsibility for the mermaid. He couldn't help thinking that the mermaid should be free.

But as an insignificant researcher, even with this idea, Boyce did not have the right to say to let him go.

It was also impossible for him to let the mermaid leave without permission. Even if he wanted Garcia to leave here, Boyce could not risk the mermaid's revenge on others and give the mermaid a chance to leave the breeding room privately.

In the final analysis, those outside the glass are his fellow clansmen.

"Sofia..." Garcia came up and called out to Boyce.

"You can call me Boyce," Boyce emphasized again, trying to make the mermaid separate himself from the word "Sofia."

Although Boyce clearly knows that this word is the reason why he now has special treatment on this mermaid.

But he also knew that he would not fall in love with a mermaid.

He was always an alien.

Boyce felt that he could not give this mermaid the love between human partners, and Garcia is the same at present, unable to understand the feelings between human beings.

Boyce glanced at the blue merman, subconsciously looking away from his canines.

The human looked away, his eyelashes trembled slightly, he let out a breath, and repeated in his heart: he will not hurt you.

Boyce deliberately ignored the minions on the mermaid, and his straight body relaxed a little.

At least, so far, he thought, his range of mate selection was still within the limits of human beings.

However, the mermaid in front of him seems to have always agreed well in person, and Garcia doesn't think there is any difference between the two names. His Sofia is the human being in front of him, and Boyce is referring to him.

A name is just a title used to distinguish different individuals.

In Garcia's cognition, Sofia and Beuys are equivalent concepts, and he is more familiar with the former than the latter.

"I remember." The mermaid agreed, looked at Boyce for a while and then said, "Sofia, I like you."

Hearing the mermaid's confession suddenly, Boyce was taken aback for a moment. The mermaid had promised before that he would never deceive Boyce again.

Boyce had a hunch that what he said was true.

And the mermaid in front of him said "like" seriously at this moment, and Boyce could tell that the mermaid really thought she liked him.

But the mermaid still didn't understand the true meaning of the word "like" for humans.

Boyce said before that "two people who like each other can be a partner."

In the mermaid's understanding, "liking" has become a necessary step before becoming a partner, just as if you need to apologize when you are angry, and you need to make an apology when you apologize, follow the established steps.

Boyce remembered Blake's record about S-5, which he had just read a few days ago.

Even if he didn’t get emotionally positive feedback in the early stage and was treated like this by the so-called destined partner, s-5 still never hurt Black. After reading all the records, Boyce didn’t think that s-5’s feelings for Black were love .

All her seemingly desperate love is aimed at the symbol "sofia".

Boyce looked at the mermaid, and he said he liked it seriously, but there was no love in his eyes.

He is still the creature who is dominated by instinct and does not understand the true meaning of liking and love.

Then Boyce shot him back: "No, you don't."

Garcia felt that things seemed to exceed his expectations once again.

"I like you," he repeated to Boyce.

Last time, Garcia asked Boyce what human likes should look like.

Boyce has never liked anyone else, so he can only explain to Garcia based on what he saw: "I like a person who is very happy when I see him, and I will miss him after we are separated..."

Garcia wrote down one by one, and then compared what Boyce said with himself, and satisfactorily came to the conclusion that he liked Boyce.

He felt he had achieved what Boyce called "like him."

But Boyce told him.

"You don't like me."

Garcia repeated what Boyce had said earlier.

Boyce was momentarily at a loss for words.

He reached out and touched the mermaid's heart: "Whether you like it or not, you have to look at it."

Garcia subconsciously pressed his heart, and the steady heartbeat was transmitted through the skin. A trace of confusion flashed in the mermaid's eyes, and he didn't understand why liking was related to the heart.

……

The researchers in the same group gave Boyce a box of diamond candy.

Boyce subconsciously remembered Ivy who asked Anthony to bring him diamond candy the day before.

Boyce went to Ivy's room to look for him, but didn't see him, so he went to the restaurant first.

Matthew noticed that Boyce seemed to be looking for someone: "Who are you looking for?"

"Ivy, I don't seem to have seen him much today."

Hearing what Boyce said, Matthew was also a little confused: "I don't seem to have seen him today."

He waved his hand in one direction: "Hayden!"

A young male researcher turned around: "What's the matter?"

"Did you see Ivy?" Matthew asked.

"Ivy?"

"I didn't see him last night. If you see him, remember to remind him to come to the laboratory."

Boyce also asked other people later, and it seemed that he hadn't seen Ivy much.

When I went to Juliana to return the materials, Boyce mentioned something by the way, and Juliana was also a little puzzled: "Ivy doesn't seem like a lazy person..."

She put the sugar in the drawer: "I'll give this to him when I see him."

After counting the materials, Juliana put them back: "What materials do you want this time?"

After Boyce finished talking about the information he wanted, he hesitated a little: "Is there any information related to s-5 here?"

Juliana nodded, and took out a few booklets from the archives: "These are the ones you haven't read."

Boyce returned to the room with these materials and opened the top booklet.

The author is Blake.

Boyce paused when he turned to a certain page.

"...After our observation, unlike other mermaids in the laboratory, it has an estrus period in spring. We detected a higher concentration of estrogen in the blood than before."

"It is the only mermaid we caught showing signs of estrus. We are trying to find out the factors that prompt it to enter estrus, so as to induce other merfolk to estrus and mate to get the next generation of mermaids."

"Perhaps the mermaids grown up in the research institute will be a little more docile than the wild mermaids caught..."

"...But S-5 doesn't have an urgent desire to reproduce the next generation. On the contrary, it looks very anxious, attacking everyone who approaches indiscriminately, and resisting the approach of others."

Finally, it was Black's hesitant words.

"I seem to hear singing."